#1980s

Max Harris

maxdnharris

New Zealand’s a country, not a company.People are more than clients or consumers.Not claiming the light rail process has been flawless. But I do think we should be more cautious

Stephen Maher

stphnmaher

I talked to Mi'kmaq historian Daniel Paul today about Sir John A, told him about the Tantallon school changing its name. Paul, 81, author of We Were Not the Savages,

Prateek Raj | प्रतीक राज

PrateekRaj_

I doubt this. Norms of innovation, tolerance and democracy are far more developed in the west than elsewhere. The equality and inclusion enjoyed by women, minorities and LGBTs in the

James Barnes

psychgeist52

(1/5) Thoughts on criticism of the term ‘mental disorder/illness’:Issue: it is used to mean some variation of an internal (bodily) dysfunction—with the all consequences/commitments that come with it. This idea

Jane Carnall

EyeEdinburgh

True story: In the 1980s, one of my neighbours was a trans woman. I knew she was trans because I'd been in the same queer youth group as her girlfriend

Irena Akbar

irenaakbar

THREADWhy Capitol Hill seige is NOT America’s Babri Masjid ‘moment’:1. Babri was DEMOLISHED, unlike Capitol Hill which was STORMED.2. Babri demolition wasn’t a ‘moment’. It was a process that begin

Ian Janssen 📚🎧🎣

ianfjanssen

Bric-a-brac and memory: I keep this probably well over a century old student's slate in my office. When I was a child in Iowa, we lived across the street from

Dr Hannah J Elizabeth

sexhistorian

If you've watched #ItsASin & are wondering about some of the other lives touched by #HIV in the 1980s, let me tell you a little about my research on HIV-affected

Chris Alexander

calxandr

The most important issue this week for those concerned about the future of democracy is the forthcoming election in Belarus where, for the first time after a quarter century of

Jennifer M. Miller

historianjennie

A lot has been said about this article today already but I wanted to add one thing: these types of arguments have been articulated by leading political scientists for a

Johanna Hanink

johannahan

Do you remember "Perfect Strangers," the late 1980s-early 1990s sitcom? About an indeterminately foreign shepherd guy who showed up on his "cousin" Larry Appleton's Chicago apartment doorstep and moved in

Tides of History

labour_history

#OTD 2000. Labour's first attempt to scrap Section 28 is defeated in the House of Lords. Blair claims the law is a "piece of prejudice"The journalist Boris Johnson says children

postage negotiator

NireBryce

it's never communicated particularly well, but the "the control panels inexplicably explode when they get hit" thing isn't that the ship is full of tannerite or whatever, it's that the

☉rthnormalist

orthonormalist

Most of my big life decisions right now account for a belief there's a significant chance that the US ceases to be functional in the next 20 years as a

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Your_Levodopa

Yup. As Coupta put it, from 1970s till late 1980s India was facing a technological apartheid from the developed West. There are so many times India has also faced sanctions

Stuart Wilks-Heeg

StuartWilksHeeg

If anything, this underestimates how long it took to reverse decline in northern English cities. The Blair governments were able to build on local, national and EU programmes already in

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